Drupal for the European Commission: BoFSession at DrupalCon Portland 2013
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This is a guest post by Mathew Lowry from Intrasoft International. We suggested him to write this post as a preparation for a BoF session his colleague will be organizing at DrupalCon Portland. If you are working on a Drupal platform for government or for a bigger organization that wants to standardize on Drupal as a communication platform for a series of its departments, and if you are attending Drupalcon Portland, come and join us to discuss best practices and lessons learned.
The European Commission recently launched a pilot Multisite Drupal7 Platform. Intrasoft Labs is organising a BofSession at DrupalCon Portland 2013 to explore the issues surrounding transforming Multisite Platforms into massively multilingual corporate CMS.
The EC launched a pilot Drupal7 Multisite Platform last year, seeing its first site (Digital Agenda) go live last October. More are to follow, but this remains a pilot project - the EC’s current corporate CMS is Documentum, with other sites and applications built using Coldfusion and Java.
The EC makes a lot of demands on its CMS. For example:
The pilot Drupal7 Multisite Platform was launched to explore what contribution, if any, Drupal could play. As a Multisite Platform, however, it creates an ‘archipelago’ of stand-alone websites, while the EC needs a CMS capable of:
Intrasoft Labs will be represented at DrupalCon 2013 by Tamas Kugler, who helped build and launch Digital Agenda, the first website on the EC’s Multisite Platform. If you have anything to share, or would like to learn more, contact him or add a comment below, and catch up with him in Portland.
Diána is a Senior Technical Writer at Pronovix. She is specialized in API documentation, topic-based authoring, and contextual help solutions. She writes, edits and reviews software documentation, website copy, user documents, and publications. She also enjoys working as a Program Monitor for NHK World TV and Arirang TV. She graduated as a programmer, then went on earning system administrator and system analyst and designer degrees. She's fluent in English and German, and worked as a translator for a publishing company translating books from German to Hungarian. She's the Hungarian translator of Basecamp. Before becoming a writer, she worked with international clients like Sony Pictures Television, Da Vinci Learning and The Walt Disney Company as a key account manager in integrated marketing campaigns focusing on digital media.
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